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How to Add a Twitter Button To WordPress

// October 22nd, 2010 // Plugins, Social Media

If you want your blog’s content to be shared across the internet you’ll need to add a Twitter button to WordPress. The official way to add a Twitter button to your blog is to create your own using Twitter’s own button generator. Here you can tweak your button’s appearance, what text and which URL will be generated when someone uses the button to tweet. Then you simply copy and paste the generated HTML into your blog where you want the button to appear.

For the plugin-minded, there’s Simple Twitter Connect. This series of plugins not only adds a Twitter button but also allows you to customize your blog’s Twittering functionality to your heart’s content. Aside from easily adding the official Twitter button, you can also tweet new posts automatically and readers can comment on your content using their Twitter accounts.

A second plugin, for those who want to add a Twitter button to WordPress without all the bells and whistles, is WP Tweet Button. This is a simple way to add the official Twitter button to your WordPress blog without having to tinker with all that bothersome HTML.

These are only a few simple ways to add a Twitter button to WordPress but there are many others. How have you added a Twitter button to your WordPress blog?